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I have been using runmlwin for some time in STATA 12 and had some programs that were working perfectly. My department has now upgraded to STATA 13. Whilst running a do file (with exactly the same data) runmlwin would no longer work (but worked fine in STATA 12).

I get the following error message

" error whilst obeying batch file
C:\Users\epmal\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_0a00007.tmp at line number
15:
RSTA 'C:\Users\epmal\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_0a000002.tmp'

Not enough columns to load data"

Any help greatly appreciated.

Stata updated the format of .dta files (which runmlwin uses to transfer the data to MLwiN) in version 13, and I suspect that you have a version of MLwiN from before this occurred. If you update to the most recent version of MLwiN then this should fix the problem you are seeing. You could instead/also update your version of runmlwin to the most recent version where we have used the "saveold" command, which would cause Stata to save the data in version 12 format.

Thanks for that, it works fine now that I have updated runmlwin using the command:

adoupdate runmlwin, update